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Veteran Bluesman Shakes up September!
John Hammond
Whittier Theatre
Wednesday, September 15 at 7:30 pm
Adults $23
Students $12
RUSH $5.00
Business Partner:
San Juan Garage Door
and Barkshire Designs, Inc.
Tom Waits calls him a “great force of nature.” T-Bone Burnett says he’s “a master…a virtuoso.” And on Wednesday, September 15, Friday Harbor gets the chance to experience that talent live when John Hammond makes his first appearance on the Whittier stage.
With a career that spans several decades, Hammond is one of a handful of white blues musicians who was on the scenes at the beginning of the first blues renaissance of the mid-‘60s. In 1966, while living in New York, he met a young Jimi Hendrix and offered to put a band together for the guitarist (while playing in his band, Hendrix was discovered by Chas Chandler, who took him to England to record). Hammond continued his work with electric blues ensembles, recording with people like Robbie Robertson, Duane Allman and Dr. John. In the meantime, he crafted a niche for himself: the solo guitar man, harmonica slung in a rack around his neck, reinterpreting classic blues songs.
Hammond has recorded 33 albums. His latest, Rough & Tough, was a 2010 Grammy nominee for Best Traditional Blues Album.
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